Year 2 have been working on a new art unit for the last few weeks. This is a printing unit, based on the work of Irish artist, Orla Kiely. Orla Kiely finds inspiration for her prints in nature and the children in Year 2 have been doing the same.
Today, we experimented with making our own block prints. We think they are very effective and hope that you do too!

We are so proud of all our star performers in FS2 and KS1 who put on an amazing performance for Christmas last week.
Every child played their role to the best of their ability and their singing, dancing and acting was just amazing!
Well done children, we are so very proud of you.

Year 2 have had a very exciting morning today!
When we got to school, we found that two elves had come to pay us a visit. Their names are Pip and Pop and they are going to be staying with us until Christmas...we'd better be on our best behaviour!

Then we went on an elf hunt in the woodlands! We each found an elf and they have stayed with us in class all day. We will be writing about elves over the next few weeks. We are very excited to be taking them home tonight.

In our computing lesson today, we learnt how to duplicate a photo then edit it.  We had lots of fun trying out lots of different colour effects!

This half term, the children in Year 2 have been building their skills in cutting and paint mixing and their knowledge of textures to create these seascape masterpieces. The children are so proud of their hard work and we hope you will agree that their collages look very effective.

Year 2 used all their knowledge of the properties of materials from our science topic this term to design boats made from scrap materials. 
They were given the criteria that the boat must have a sail and be able to float a cargo of one large marble in water for 10 seconds.
The children brought many of the materials in and had a fabulous time making the boats, as you can see from the photographs.
They then predicted what would happen to the boats when they were put into water.
All the children, and Mrs Ellis, were very surprised when all the boats floated! Maybe some of these children will be ship builders of the future!

In computing this week, we have been looking at what makes a good photograph.  We worked with a partner to take photos in different places and scored them out of 10 based on how good the lighting was.

In maths this week we have been counting to 100.  On Wednesday we had a practical lesson, involving counting how many jumps/star jumps we could do in 30 seconds as well as counting different sets of objects.  We worked out it was a lot easier to count a group of objects if we lined them up or put them into groups. 

Our art topic this half term is all about collage and we have been focusing on seaside holidays for inspiration.
On Friday we explored how to create texture in our artwork by sticking materials such as sand, cotton wool and tissue paper onto our artwork.
The children had a lovely time experimenting with the different textures and tried so hard to be careful and precise with their creations. Well done Year 2!